Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/20

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Leica M perspective error
From: Michael Volow <mvolo@acpub.duke.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 02:07:47 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

Thank you all. I am now educated that true perspective depends upon 
distance from subject, and I gree with this.

However, I still maintain that a scene viewed through the 28mm frameline
of our beloved M6 and the same scene viewed through a 28mm SLR lens (at
the same location) look quite different to the viewer's eye. In the 28mm
SLR view (at least to my eye) you receive the impression of objects
receding dramatically into the distance. In the M6 view through 28mm frame
I do not receive the same impression. If you agree that the two views look
different, what do you call this property? Is it simply image reduction?
In fact, a list member who agreed with everyone else's view of perspective
said that when he had his M6 and saw a lovely landscape, he wished he had
his SLR along. 

BTW, I am not trying to push SLRs. I am very fond of M6; I'm just trying 
to understand what I think I'm seeing.

Michael Volow, M.D. (mvolo@acpub.duke.edu)
Department of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
919 286 0411 Ext 6933



In reply to: Message from Charles E. Dunlap <cdunlap@rupture.ucsc.edu> (Leica M perspective error)